Essence drain blocked by pots/urns in maps

It's extremely frustrating that essence drain is entirely blocked by pots/urns in maps.

Playing around this is tedious and absurd - I have to have a dedicated pot-breaking ability, or position my character so that my projectile avoids pots.

A very common build in PoE1 was essence drain contagion - it was never very strong but it was always very smooth. Try it in PoE2: it is both not strong and extremely tedious/frustrating to play, because of things like this.